Hardinsburg, KY 40145 Frost Dates
40145, near Hardinsburg, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Hardinsburg sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hardinsburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hardinsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Hardinsburg's last and first frost, putting it 18,990 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 381 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40145: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Hardinsburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hardinsburg's dates instead of trusting one.